2020 Melosh Medalist, Duke University

We are very pleased to announce that Stein K. F. Stoter, from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (adviser: Professor Dominik Schillinger), is the 2020 Melosh Medalist for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis. Dr. Stoter’s contribution was titled "The variational multiscale method for discontinuous Galerkin type finite element formulations".

Congratulations Stein!

We also would like to congratulate the four other finalists for this first-ever virtual Melosh competition:

• Heedong Goh, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Inverse metamaterial design for band-gaping propagating elastic waves
• Amit Madhukar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  A Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Extreme Multiscale Problems in Seismology
• Deniz Ozturk, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Uncertainty Quantification in Multi-Scale Modeling of Titanium Alloys
• Juan Michael Sargado, University of Bergen, Norway
  A novel phase-field model for fluid-driven brittle fracture in permeable media based on consistent regularization of poroelastic parameters

 We deeply thank

• Professor Omar Ghattas, Oden Institute for Computational Science & Engineering, Departments of Geological Sciences & Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, and
• Professor Peter Wriggers, Institute for Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany,

who brilliantly served as judges for this 31st edition.

The call for the 2021 edition will be posted soon – Stay tuned!

Johann Guilleminot & Guglielmo Scovazzi, Melosh competition coordinators, Duke University